From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32-pass-lwindow-to-system does not work as expected Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:24:03 +0200 Message-ID: <42CB0883.1070905@student.lu.se> References: <42CADC1A.4060106@student.lu.se> <42CAE2AC.9060502@student.lu.se> <42CAE830.5050505@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120602933 19481 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2005 22:35:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 06 00:35:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpw04-0000ki-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:34:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpw1L-0007Pp-F1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpvz1-0006h9-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpvyr-0006ar-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpvyq-0006X9-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dpvw1-0004vy-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD2001A7744; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 00:24:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40470 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40470 Juanma Barranquero wrote: >I don't see. When the variable is non-nil, Emacs does not pass the >lwindow key to Windows. Windows grabs it at a lower level; that's >unrelated to what Emacs does or says it does. > > It is not on a lower level in that sense. Emacs can (I believe) prevent the key to pass to windows, but it does not. >I've seen that too. But in this case, and speaking from my experience >only, I tested it, quickly discovered that some keys where always >intercepted by Windows, and happily started using the ones that it >didn't grab. Most users don't read docs, but the ones that do usually >are able to do a little experimenting, don't you think? > > It is a matter of time I think. >gain seems, to my admittedly uninformed opinion, unwise. > > We are all trying to make good guesses of course ;-)